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Loading... The Fourth Industrial Revolution (edition 2017)by Klaus Schwab (Author)NOT ONE TASTY BUG RECIPE! The book reads like someone got really into NLP in the 80s and desperately wants you to repeat "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" in your sleep. While the negative externalities from the near future (widespread joblessness, inequality, political upheaval) are made very concrete, the benefits and the solutions to the problems, appear only as vague handwaving and the kind of meaningless fluff words business management people take courses in to swindle investors with. Also 20% of the book is just an appendix with a series of random summaries about various promising technologies or products that exist, the future of which are then hypothesized about. Did you know we didn't used to have computers and the internet, and now we do? Can you imagine what happens when everyone has an iPhone and Apple Watch? Access to education! Participation in the global economy! Expanded market size and e-commerce! Hype and buzzwords masquerading as information. Technological advances are rapidly changing how we do business, how we earn a living, how we make things...and, well, pretty much everything. This book provides a fairly superficial overview of several areas in which this is happening and extrapolates into the near future. The basic message is that societies need to address these changes and adapt. Specific recommendations on how are largely lacking, and the presentation is extremely dry. The fact that this is such an interesting and important topic warrants bumping my subjective rating to 3 stars, but it's far from the best book I've read on these issues. |
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